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Clarkston, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clarkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99403. The Survey maps it on the Clarkston quadrangle. 7,161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

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Clarkston within Asotin County

On record in Clarkston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Clarkston fell from 7,229 to 7,161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,229
20207,161-68 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clarkston in 2018, burning about 283 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use283 acresIdaho Department of LandsMILE MARKER 319

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Asotin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Clarkston: 12 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarkston PlacerGold, Zirconium, Titanium, IronPast Producer
Clarkston QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Barnes PitStoneProducer
Northwest AggregatesStonePast Producer
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Collins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
McGregor PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clarkston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clarkston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dry Gulch QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Asotin County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Flash FloodClarkston$30,000Over 0.75" fell over the Clarkston Valley causing flooding on the Interstate bridge and prompting to be closed for two hours. Several roads were also under about a foot of water.
September 1998Flash FloodClarkston$30,000Rainfall amounts of up to 0.87" fell over the Clarkston Valley, causing several streets to flood and mudslides closing roads.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000Strong downburst winds from a thunderstorm knocked out power to 2,000 customers in Clarkston when a tree blew down on a power line. An addition, a portable carport was blown into another power line. Another tree was uprooted knocking down another power line and landing on a shop.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindClarkston$5,000A severe thunderstorm moving off the Blue Mountains blew over power poles.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClarkston$4,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClarkston$2,000no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindClarkston$1,00065 mph gust, large tree down
August 2007Thunderstorm WindClarkston$1,000no account filed
June 2020HailClarkston-A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch from thunderstorms near Clarkston.

Every storm recorded in Asotin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
West Clarkston1.1 miles12
Vineland1.4 miles12
Highland1.5 miles12
Clarkston Heights2.4 miles12
Asotin5.3 miles11
Jerry7.2 miles11
Silcott8.1 miles10
Grahams Landing14.2 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ClarkstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980878The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512093. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.